Summary: Looking beyond Agile - Using Customer Experience Management (CEM) and Agile to build the right product with high value, fast.

Learning Objects:

To emphasise the common challenges with regards to deriving customer value

To obtain an overview of ensuring that we are building the“right product”, correctly as fast as possible to obtain early customer feedback

To obtain an understanding of Customer Experience Management (CEM)

To obtain knowledge of techniques used within CEM to assist in creating a product vision that will translate to a product backlog that meets customer needs including role of the PO

Athens/Barcelona

Information Radiators On A Portfolio Level

Joanne Perold, Niels Verdonk

Session Details

Information Radiators On A Portfolio Level

Joanne Perold, Niels Verdonk

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Capacity planning is efficient and not effective.This talk focuses on techniques for visibility and effectiveness, making decisions on value

Learning Objects:

Gain understanding of the problem of capacity planning over value planning.

Learn about methods for visibility and creating information radiators at a portfolio level.

Practices and tools to expose less valuable items in a portfolio

Tools to help quickly get enough information about value and how to identify high value work.

Practical examples of how we have seen this work

Palmovka/Rokoska

Neuro-diverse Workspaces: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Sallyann Freudenberg

Session Details

Neuro-diverse Workspaces: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Sallyann Freudenberg

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Software development needs neuro-diversity. Understand how we can adjust our practices and workspaces for different kinds of minds.

Learning Objects: Understand basic concepts in the psychology of programming: Chunking, Beacons, Schema and the software development process. Marvel at the rich mental imagery programmers and software designers describe. Understand the basic stages in the creative process and how to help it. Look at some disorders prevalent in I.T. and understand what challenges they hold. Consider how our practices and workplaces help and hinder. Come away with some ideas of how to change your working environment.

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Freedom from Broken Values

Dejan Pažin

Session Details

Freedom from Broken Values

Dejan Pažin

Room: Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Learn to spot core agile values being broken. Get a chance to test your abilities during the presentation and take active part at it.

Summary: In 2013 my family and I was challenged with a jumpstart to expand our house. This is about how we used Scrum to do it.

Learning Objects: This is mainly a case-study about agility in a non-IT environment. For the audience the main aspect will most likely be, that agility and Scrum is applicable in other environments than IT, too, but there are certain adaptions necessary and certain limitations. Especially if it comes down to tools, which Scrum does not cover other than talking about artifacts, their selection requires more attention.

Berlin/Brussels

User Story Refactoring

Kasia Mrowca

Session Details

User Story Refactoring

Kasia Mrowca

Room: Berlin/Brussels

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Backlog filled up for 2 next years with a meaningless User Stories? There is a cure for that! Join my talk to find out more!

Learning Objects: Step one: size. What to do if backlog is too big? (And so there is too many user stories to refactor).
Step two: size^2: What to do with 'fat' user stories?
Step three: content. Delete or not delete, it's a question!
Step four: identify value <-> feature relation.
Step five: write it down!

Hercovka/Tyrolka

User Story Smells and Anti-Patterns - The Art of Storytelling

Fadi Stephan

Session Details

User Story Smells and Anti-Patterns - The Art of Storytelling

Fadi Stephan

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: A looks at common anti-patterns and mistakes that teams unknowingly employ when writing user stories.

Learning Objects:

Spotting user story smells and anti-patterns

Understanding that not everything is a user story

Properly sizing user stories

Understanding when and how to split user stories

Importance of Definition of Ready

Progressive Story elaboration

Palmovka/Rokoska

Empower teams to own their improvement culture

Niels Verdonk, Joanna Perold

Session Details

Empower teams to own their improvement culture

Niels Verdonk, Joanna Perold

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: When teams have a structured approach to continuous improvement, they will own their process, and they can start real self-organisation.

Learning Objects: Self-organisation cannot happen when teams do not own their process.
To achieve real process improvement, teams need to learn to think as a team.
Concrete examples you can use with teams in your own organisation.
A new structure to support ScrumMasters to help teams improve on topics they have identified.
The prerequisites for starting self-assessments in teams.
What not to do with team assessments.

Congress III

Automated Testing in Agile Development

Jonas Allared, Petter Osterling

Session Details

Automated Testing in Agile Development

Jonas Allared, Petter Osterling

Room: Congress III

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Summary: Join our energizing, LEGO®-based workshop to get the tools and methods needed for visualizing the value of automated tests to your peers.

Learning Objects: Learning Objectives:

Learn the new role of the tester in a fast-paced agile environment

Learn why automated testing is crucial in maintaining quality

Learn new ways of promoting automated tests through LEGO®

Berlin/Brussels

Facilitation Dojo

Andreas Schliep, Peter Beck

Session Details

Facilitation Dojo

Andreas Schliep, Peter Beck

Room: Berlin/Brussels

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: We provide this Facilitation Dojo as a platform for safe learning and exchange about facilitation techniques, pitfalls und secrets.

Learning Objects:

Provide an engaging and inspiring environment for an event

Deal with disturbances and interruptions

Address conflicts and help the parties to navigate through them

Collect ideas and organize them into topics

Understand the origin of the word facilitate and live to it

Athens/Barcelona

Bootstrap your Business Model: Business Agility on the Back of a Napkin

Bernie Maloney

Session Details

Bootstrap your Business Model: Business Agility on the Back of a Napkin

Bernie Maloney

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Want to test/iterate a business plan almost on-the-fly, ahead of code? Learn how Business Agility can begin on the Back of a Napkin.

Learning Objects:

How to amplify Agile’s power of Inspect & Adapt by applying it in business layers

How to Paper Prototype a Business or a Product Definition ahead of development

How to “unit test” a Product to find Minimum Viable Product

How to “system test” a Business Model to find Product Market Fit

Experience creating a Business Model for a simple product, and exploring how the same product could be used to solve multiple customer problems

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Continuous Improvement in Your DNA

Els Verkaik, Jasper Lamers

Session Details

Continuous Improvement in Your DNA

Els Verkaik, Jasper Lamers

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: How to deal with “Yes, but” behavior and create responsible and adaptive mindsets needed to get a continuous improvement culture?

Learning Objects:

Become aware what is blocking Agile transformations and our journey to get continuous improvement in our DNA.

Recognize different ways of resistance during the transition to Agile

Recognize patterns in behavior and mindset

Techniques you can use to help people getting insight in their behavior and mindset and what is needed for continuous improvement

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

From ScrumMaster to Agile Coach - Where is the Map?

Samantha Laing, Karen Greaves

Session Details

From ScrumMaster to Agile Coach - Where is the Map?

Samantha Laing, Karen Greaves

Room: Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: What do you need to know as a ScrumMaster and how do you progress to being an agile coach? Together we will create a learning map!

Learning Objects:

Understanding and appreciating how much is out there to learn

Creating a map of learning artifacts that can be used to structure your career path

Increased aptitude for differentiating more Scrum-aligned options from less Scrum-aligned options

Increased awareness of the trade-offs being made in particular implementation choices

Athens/Barcelona

Lean Products and the Validation Board

Rodrigo De Toledo, Marcos Garrido

Session Details

Lean Products and the Validation Board

Rodrigo De Toledo, Marcos Garrido

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Why, even with Agile, we find products and features not useful? We invite attendees to experiment the Validation Board, a Lean Startup tool.

Learning Objects:

Learn how to use the Validation Board;

Learn how to use Lean Startup concepts in practice;

Learn different ways to validate business hypothesis;

Be aware of different ways to pivot the product;

Be motivated to develop Lean Products.

Palmovka/Rokoska

Beyond Managing Emotions in Teams

David Papini

Session Details

Beyond Managing Emotions in Teams

David Papini

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Managing emotions is an illusion: instead, you can create and transmit emotions as a way to increase freedom.

Learning Objects: This session goals are to provoke fresh thoughts about the role of emotions in team performance. We'll see how emotions are necessary to understand any team development process model and we'll apply them to well known team development models. We'll experiment with a basic set of team protocols capable of activating and processing emotional information in a team.

Congress I

Estimating Business Value

Laura M. Powers

Session Details

Estimating Business Value

Laura M. Powers

Room: Congress I

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn simple techniques to estimate the business value of each of your user stories.

Learning Objects:

Facilitate exercises with stakeholders to define and quantify business value

Learning Objects: The primary objective of this session is to inform Scrum Masters and organizational leaders about coaching techniques. Another important benefit is that participants will experience coaching techniques that they can then apply when they return from the Scrum Gathering. And, the exercises can be leveraged in the participants’ organization.

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Picturing a Problem

Shaun Smith, David Putman

Session Details

Picturing a Problem

Shaun Smith, David Putman

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn a powerful systems thinking technique for visualizing and solving problems. We'll also look at common patterns and tools for change.

Learning Objects:

Learn how to use and draw simple Causal Loop Diagrams

Be able to use the diagrams in a group setting to build a shared mental model

Understand the role of Feedback, Delays, Limiting Factors, Goal Seeking and Lock-on in Systems Thinking and Modelling.

Understand the role of perception and human emotion in Systems Thinking and Modelling.

Identify common Systems Archetypes and understand relevant and counter-productive interventions

Summary: Looking for tools that can help Teams & PO's to be the best they can be? Play the game and experience value-driven backlog refinement.

Learning Objects:

Participants will play the game and learn about backlog ordering, refinement and value-driven development

Participants will receive the game to play it with others, and will have the knowledge to facilitate it

Location: U Fleků

Monday Mingle

Session Details

Monday Mingle

Room: Location: U Fleků

Track:

Session Type:

Summary: Celebrate a successful first day by joining us at U Fleků, founded in 1499 and known as Prague’s oldest pub. Scrum Alliance® will provide great food and drinks while you get to immerse yourself in Czech music and entertainment.

Meet in the Hilton Prague lobby at 5:30 sharp to join your fellow Scrum Gathering® attendees for a short bus ride through the streets of Prague over to U Fleků.

Learning Objectives:

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Agile and Automated Testing in Scrum Implementations

Helmut Steineder

Session Details

Agile and Automated Testing in Scrum Implementations

Helmut Steineder

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: This talk provides an overview about changes from traditional to agile testing and challenges and solutions for automating testing.

Learning Objects: The audience will understand the paradigm change behind agile testing and required skills for agile testers. Certain examples from implementations in our company and in client projects will be shown.For automated testing the differentiation between valuable and potentially too much automation will be shown. In addition the switch from the 2nd wave of IT in the 80ies and 90ies and the 3rd wave of IT in the last 15 years will be explained.

Berlin/Brussels

From Non-Violent Communication to Potential-Focused Communication

Ralph Miarka

Session Details

From Non-Violent Communication to Potential-Focused Communication

Ralph Miarka

Room: Berlin/Brussels

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: You know and like the four steps of non-violent communication? Even if not, you will love and value the solution-focused twist to it.

Learning Objects:

Participants will know the basics about the four steps of resource-focused communication

Participants will experience this resource-focused technique

Participants should be able to use it in their environment

Congress Hall I

AdvanScrum - Spicing up your Scrum

Danny Kovatch

Session Details

AdvanScrum - Spicing up your Scrum

Danny Kovatch

Room: Congress Hall I

Track: Visual

Session Type: Talk

Summary:

Scrum gives a lot of freedom that creates sometimes frustration. In this session, I will describe tools how to do it in a better way

Learning Objects:

Understand the HOW behind the WHAT

Get to know tens of practical suggested meetings that will help you implement Scrum in a better way

Get to know all kind of visibility boards that are being used all over the world

Learning Objects: After attending this session, participants should be able to: Accurately diagnose performance gaps using Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model, quantify team efficacy using the success metrics of Agile Performance Improvement, and monetize the output of the development team using the Taxonomy for Proving Value.

Palmovka/Rokoska

The Power of Feedback Loops

Luca Mezzalira

Session Details

The Power of Feedback Loops

Luca Mezzalira

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Track: Auditory [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: As you know creating software is an empirical process during this session we'll understand the power of feedback loops and how to use them.

Learning Objects:

Recognise the feedback loops inside Scrum framework

Implement methodologies to retrieve metrics

Analyse metrics in order to improve your projects

Congress III

Agile Compensation

David Baer

Session Details

Agile Compensation

David Baer

Room: Congress III

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Imagine a compensation scheme with calculated and transparent salaries and teams that distribute bonus within themselves.

Learning Objects:

Prove to the audience (by example) that different compensation models are possible.

Show how important salaries are to culture and how it shapes the culture of a company.

There is no easy way to implement this in another context. Therefore I want to help by giving other examples and embedding the topic with relevant literature to give the attendees the capability to come up with their own unique solution for a more agile compensation scheme.

Vienna, Madrid, Roma

User Stories are Fun! Capture the Magic with Story Cubes® & Innovation Games®

Carlton Nettleton

Session Details

User Stories are Fun! Capture the Magic with Story Cubes® & Innovation Games®

Use the Innovation Game® “Start Your Day” to find hidden requirements by varying user story context.

Use Story Cubes® to facilitate deeper customer understanding.

Have fun and do something interactive.

Congress I, II, III

Welcome Remarks & Opening Keynote - Niels Pflaeging

Niels Pflaeging

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Welcome Remarks & Opening Keynote - Niels Pflaeging

Niels Pflaeging

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track:

Session Type:

Summary:

Biography

Niels Pflaeging is a passionate advocate for a “new breed“ of leadership and profound change in organizations. He is founder and associate of the BetaCodex Network, and president of his own consulting firm based in Barcelona/Spain and Wiesbaden/Germany.
Prior to the BetaCodex Network, Niels was for five years a director with the prestigious Beyond Budgeting Round Table. Niels´ second book, Leading with flexible Targets. Beyond Budgeting in Practice was awarded the Financial Times Germany Best Business Book award, in 2006. Both this book and his latest one, entitled Organize for Complexity: How to Get Life Back Into Work to Build the High-Performance Organization were lauded by critics and readers and became bestsellers.
Since 2006, Niels has been strongly involved in transformational change projects for firms both in Europe and the Americas. Niels has more than 10 years of consulting experience with companies large and small, and frequently teaches at several academic institutions in Europe.

»When Pflaeging shakes the dogmas of management, they crumble in his hands.« Financial Times Germany

Organize for Complexity.

Business, markets and societies have changed, but the principles, methods and concepts of organizational leadership and haven’t, by and large. Rigid and erratic performance management processes like planning, budgeting, project management, fixed-target setting, individual employee appraisal, and so-called “pay for performance”-pay, combined with autocratic decision-making, org charts and micro-management from the top – these techniques from the industrial age are still widely established standards. But are they still adequate? And if not, how can we adapt our organizational models to the ever-changing environments of the information age and do things better?
In this session, you will learn how any organization, by moving beyond command and control, and by abolishing the entire mindset of management, of functional organization, planning and bureaucratic hierarchy, can become sustainably more successful and profitable. Niels shows how the transformation towards an organization model for the complexity of the knowledge economy really works and how people, teams and organizations can be unleashed from the burdens of bureaucracy - freed from management by command and control.

Learning Objectives:

Registration

Session Details

Registration

Room:

Track:

Session Type:

Summary: We welcome you to register Sunday and get a head start on your Gathering experience. The registration desk will be open throughout the Gathering for registration as well as answering your Gathering questions.

Learning Objectives:

Congress Hall Foyer

Welcome Reception

Session Details

Welcome Reception

Room: Congress Hall Foyer

Track:

Session Type:

Summary: Come and register Sunday evening to begin your Scrum Gathering® with a drink and a chance to network with Gathering friends. We welcome first-time and longtime attendees to share their Scrum expectations and experiences to kick off a successful Gathering.

Learning Objectives:

Athens/Barcelona

Scrum at Home

Klaus Bucka-Lassen

Session Details

Scrum at Home

Klaus Bucka-Lassen

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: How I use certain elements of Scrum at home to motivate my kids (from age 4) to do their chores.

Learning Objects: Learn how Scrum can be used within one's own four walls. Create your own starter kit to take home after this mini-workshop.

Palmovka/Rokoska

Moving In Harmony: The Psychology Behind Change

Henrik Zätterman

Session Details

Moving In Harmony: The Psychology Behind Change

Henrik Zätterman

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Track: Auditory [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Making changes in organisations takes time and energy and still we fall back into bad behavioral patterns. Why and what can we do about it?

Summary: The future is still uncertain, but it arrives faster than ever. Learn what it takes to emphasize your existing business and build innovation in.

Learning Objects: Participants learn, how they can approach current contextual boundaries, deal with modern management and change for succeeding in a growing competitive landscape. They understand what it takes to focus on both engines of the enterprise - exploration as well as exploitation. And they understand how to establish leadership towards building up the capability for customer focus, learning and innovation at every level into their organization.

Congress I

Being Scrum at Heart to Adopt Lean

Theofanis Giotis

Session Details

Being Scrum at Heart to Adopt Lean

Theofanis Giotis

Room: Congress I

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Using Scrum as the Pumping Heart to Bring Down the Wall with Management and Effectively Adopt Lean in an Auditing Firm (Case Study).

Learning Objects:

Understand why upper management made the wrong decisions on changing the company culture

Know better why Lean was selected as and antidote to financial crisis and why Lean failed

Understand why partial adoption of principles leads to disasters

Get inside info of how external coaches helped implementing Scrum

Learn how to avoid similar failures

Berlin/Brussels

Managing Software Development in the Age of Agile

Karen Greaves, Samantha Laing

Session Details

Managing Software Development in the Age of Agile

Karen Greaves, Samantha Laing

Room: Berlin/Brussels

Track: Auditory [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: How can managers create happy, productive, motivated agile teams? We will share 7 key elements from our own experience as dev managers.

Learning Objects:

Be able to describe the mindset an agile manager needs to adopt and how their role changes.

Understand 7 key elements necessary to support hyper productivity and growth as well as retaining developers in a highly competitive marketplace.

Learn about specific practices like hiring, performance reviews and salaries, and how these need to change to support an agile team.

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Scaling Scrum by LeSS and SAFe

Ari Tikka

Session Details

Scaling Scrum by LeSS and SAFe

Ari Tikka

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Case Nokia shows the fundamental challenges in scaling Scrum. Know the paramount questions to check before choosing LeSS or SAFe.

Learning Objects:

Understand the fundamental problems of scaling Scrum in every big organisation.

Hear Nokia's long-term real-life experiences in using both LeSS and SAFe.

Understand the differences in the SAFe and LeSS approaches. What are their strengths and challenges?

Know the most important questions to study before choosing the scaling approach.

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Scrum Economics 101: Contracts, Budgets, Capitalization

Pavel Dabrytski

Session Details

Scrum Economics 101: Contracts, Budgets, Capitalization

Pavel Dabrytski

Room: Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: How much money is one story point? Is Sprint 0 an expense or an asset? Can you run Scrum with a fixed-cost contract? Find the answers!

Learning Objects:

Agile contracts

Agile project budgets

Agile project capitalization

Congress I, II, III

A New Visual Paradigm for Uncertainty in Agile Projects

Han Van Loon

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A New Visual Paradigm for Uncertainty in Agile Projects

Han Van Loon

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Session Type: PechaKucha

Summary: The Estimation bubble - a new visual paradigm for uncertainty, agility and estimation.

Learning Objects: Provide Scrum'mers with the ability to explain how uncertainty is handled in Agile projects spo that agility is enhanced, while estimation and progress are well managed.

Congress I, II, III

Avoid Losing Implementation Momentum

Ofer Cohen

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Avoid Losing Implementation Momentum

Ofer Cohen

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: PechaKucha

Summary: How to create agile implementation momentum and how to maintain it.

Learning Objects:

Main checkpoints for initiating agile implementation

How to maintain the momentum without loosing it

Importance of Management Support

Congress I, II, III

Now Hiring - Scrum Master Wanted

Simone Zecchi

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Now Hiring - Scrum Master Wanted

Simone Zecchi

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: PechaKucha

Summary: Is evaluation only on the companies side? Sure not! Make sure They are ready for You!

Learning Objects: Highlighting common mistakes and misunderstanding on the Scrum Roles and of the Scrum framework, encourage learning and evaluation of companies, encourage companies to be more bold about Scrum adoption.

Congress I, II, III

Product Owner Must BE's

Anu Smalley

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Product Owner Must BE's

Anu Smalley

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track: Auditory [Beginner]

Session Type: PechaKucha

Summary: What should a Product Owner must “BE” and not just “DO”.

Learning Objects: Learn a simple way to understand the role of a Product Owner Learn 6 things a Product Owner must BE.

Congress I, II, III

The Economics of Continuous Integration

Adrian Perreau De Pinninck

Session Details

The Economics of Continuous Integration

Adrian Perreau De Pinninck

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: PechaKucha

Summary: Agilists know how important CI is for an Agile team. We present an economic model to help you convince management.

Learning Objects: Understand the benefits of Continuous Integration. Quantify the costs of deferred integration and how Continuous Integration tackles them. Be able to use a model to describe the ROI of putting Continuous Integration in Place.

Summary: Introducing scrum at Volkswagen IT, from a group of innovators in 2011 to an agile center of excellence providing agile craftsmanship.

Learning Objects:

Learn how to organize a powerful community in order to promote agile thinking

Learn how small impulses over a long time can make a big change

Learn when and how to approach senior management

Learn how to secure a sustainable speed in agile rollout

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Don’t Refactor. Rebuild. Kinda.

Wouter Lagerweij

Session Details

Don’t Refactor. Rebuild. Kinda.

Wouter Lagerweij

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Even starting teams with a legacy codebase can succeed with quality (XP) practices using architecture and process to set them up for success.

Learning Objects: Even a world class team is slowed by a big, messy code-base. For a starting team, it can be hopeless. Learning all the XP practices is hard enough without a Big Ball (of Mud) and Chain holding you back. A loosely coupled architecture around an existing system lets us replace parts while its running. Then we’re free to use all our quality practices for the new parts, and start Continuous Delivery from Day One. So let's rebuild. The Agile way: incrementally, iteratively, and value driven.

Congress I

More with LeSS: Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

Bas Vodde

Session Details

More with LeSS: Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

Bas Vodde

Room: Congress I

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is an minimalistic Agile framework for scaling Scrum to multiple teams. Bas shares how it works and was created.

Learning Objects:What is LeSS? How do the two LeSS Frameworks work? Why should you scale up rather than tailor down?

Congress III

Silicon Gym - Workouts for Agile Microchips

John Barry

Session Details

Silicon Gym - Workouts for Agile Microchips

John Barry

Room: Congress III

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Maximizing the impact of Agile adoption in digital hardware designs entails more than copying and pasting software successes.

Learning Objects:

How to deal complex interdependencies between a large number of very specialised functions in an Agile way

Identifying the attributes of functional areas where Agile adoption can be pioneered, those where transitions are more complex and options for mitigating common issues

How to maximise efficiency by adapting the process over the course of a development cycle

How to deal with ambiguities in the definition of consumers and shippable product

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Invite Your Tester to the Party

Allan Rennebo Jepsen

Session Details

Invite Your Tester to the Party

Allan Rennebo Jepsen

Room: Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Track: Touch [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Most developers don't interact directly with testers, and even if they do the tester is rarely made part of the daily work. Sounds familiar?

Learning Objects:

Get practical inspiration on how you can include the tester - starting Monday morning.

Be able to help eliminate the need for "Quality Control".

Be able to turn the battle between developers and testers into a collaborative process.

Athens/Barcelona

Slowing down to Speed up: Agile and Technical Debt

Taghi Paksima

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Slowing down to Speed up: Agile and Technical Debt

Taghi Paksima

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Talk

Summary: Learn how to use Agile techniques and metrics to manage and control technical debt, hence boosting team productivity.

Learning Objects: Technical debt, if not managed properly, will have technical and economic implications on software projects as well as psychological impact on teams. Learn how to use Agile techniques and metrics to detect, control, and systematically reduce technical debt, thus contributing productivity gain and focusing on delivering business value.

Athens/Barcelona

Inspect and Adapt: Measuring Kaizen

Sacha Storz

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Inspect and Adapt: Measuring Kaizen

Sacha Storz

Room: Athens/Barcelona

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: How do we find relevant areas and appropriate measurable variables for our Kaizen initiatives? How do we constantly improve?

Learning Objects:

To improve your Kaizen approaches be aware of all stakeholders (build stakeholder map)

Find measurable variables for most relevent areas of improvement for most relevant stakeholders

Build assumptions on what you have to do to achieve those improvements (build impact map)

Derive (safe2fail) experiments

Measure outcome and repeat

Palmovka/Rokoska

Bring Down the Wall of Confusion with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Simulation Game

Dana Pylayeva

Session Details

Bring Down the Wall of Confusion with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Simulation Game

Dana Pylayeva

Room: Palmovka/Rokoska

Track: Auditory [Beginner]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Bring your systems thinking: expand boundaries of a Scrum team, collaborate with Ops and learn to optimize the flow with Chocolate and LEGO!

Learning Objects:

Understand and learn to address a traditional misalignment of goals of the three major groups in product development (business, development and operations).

Understand how effective communication and collaboration with Operations and Security teams can have a positive impact on Scrum teams ability to eliminate the constraints and improve flow of work.

Experiment with increasing frequency of releases, amplifying feedback loop and moving towards early and continuous delivery of value.

Hercovka/Tyrolka

Exploit Core Scrum Practices at the Program Level

Jeff Lopez-Stuit

Session Details

Exploit Core Scrum Practices at the Program Level

Jeff Lopez-Stuit

Room: Hercovka/Tyrolka

Track: Visual [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Learn how core Scrum practices support visibility, remove impediments, and promote flow for programs with many teams and hundreds of people.

Learning Objects:

Why Scrum practices are valuable at the program level, when many teams and hundreds of people are working together.

The background and history of traditional approaches to program level work.

Engage in some elementary experience of these practices through a simulation exercise

Methods for evaluating whether program-level practices are being effective.

Congress III

The Legal Side of Scrum

Jürgen Hoffmann, Torsten Culmsee

Session Details

The Legal Side of Scrum

Jürgen Hoffmann, Torsten Culmsee

Room: Congress III

Track: Visual [Beginner]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: We - a lawyer focussed on IT law and an experienced CSC and CST - will show in this session how to avoid legal pitfalls when working agile.

Learning Objects: How to avoid pitfalls in contracting when developing producte with agile development. This is an interactive session for Product Owners and people carrying responsibilities for projects with external contractors.

Knowing some Fearless Change influence patterns and increased curiosity to learn more

Experience the Fearless Journey game for your challenges

Get new ideas to help unblock impediments for your challenging goals

Learn how to use Fearless Journey in your own environment / organization (e.g. for blocked teams, retrospectives, community of practice meetings, leadership teams, etc.)

Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Where Do You Want To Get To? A Goal-Based Approach to Adopting Scrum

Jim York

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Where Do You Want To Get To? A Goal-Based Approach to Adopting Scrum

Jim York

Room: Vienna/Madrid/Roma

Track: Touch [Advanced]

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: If you don't care where you want to get to, any path will do. But if you do care, join us to connect Scrum practice to your desired outcome.

Learning Objects:Identify and articulate goals for their Scrum Adoption. Select Agile practices to complement their Scrum adoption that are best matched to specific desired outcomes.

Congress I, II, III

Lightning Talks

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Lightning Talks

Room: Congress I, II, III

Track:

Session Type: Lightning Talk

Summary:1. What is a Lightning Talk?

Six talks will be chosen and all talks will be 5 minutes each. Speakers will be chosen onsite. Have a great idea/topic? Submit and you could present your topic.

2. How do I submit a Lightning Talk?

All Gathering attendees will have a chance to submit once onsite at the Prague Gathering. We will have a board, where you will post about your session topic. Your posting will include your name, title of the talk and (3) words/adjectives describing your talk.

3. How are Lightning Talks chosen?

Each attendee will get a certain number of votes [stickers]. Each attendee will have a chance to vote and apply a sticker onto the talk they would like to hear presented. All votes will be tallied for Tuesday morning.

4. How do I find out who is presenting?

Lightning Talks will be announced on Tuesday morning. Chosen speakers are responsible in bringing their own supplies, if required [such as a laptop, handouts, slides].

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Congress Hall Foyer

17:00 - 18:00: VersionOne Happy Hour

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17:00 - 18:00: VersionOne Happy Hour

Room: Congress Hall Foyer

Track:

Session Type: Happy Hour

Summary: Drop by for a drink and meet friends from your Happy Hour Sponsor - VersionOne!

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Congress I, II, III

Keynote - Andrea Provaglio

Andrea Provaglio

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Keynote - Andrea Provaglio

Andrea Provaglio

Room: Congress I, II, III

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Biography

As an independent consultant, Andrea helps knowledge-based organizations to implement better ways of doing business; and he coaches teams and individuals who want to improve technically, relationally and culturally.
His main contribution is in assisting executives, leaders and managers who appreciate the business advantage of effective knowledge work, helping them evolve their companies into healthier organizational and cultural models (which includes, but it's not limited to, adopting Agile and Lean).
In over two decades of professional experience, Andrea had clients in three different continents and worked with a wide range of companies and organizations, both in the private and in the public sector, ranging from the United Nations’ FAO and large multinational corporations, to small and dynamic IT companies.
As part of his activities, Andrea enjoys sharing what he knows at major European and international conferences, where he’s a regular speaker.
Currently Andrea works in Europe. He also worked in the USA as an independent contractor for four years, on a O-1 visa for "extraordinary abilities in Sciences".

Value

In Agile we like to deliver valuable software to our customers on a regular basis. However, while it’s pretty clear what “software” means, we cannot really say the same about “valuable”. The definition of Value in a project (with an uppercase “V”) is frequently fuzzy and confused.

Even within the same project, asking different stakeholders what Value means to them produces different answers; and the same stakeholder will likely provide different definitions of Value, depending on their perception and role in the project.

Most stakeholders will naturally associate Value to money, sometimes through surprisingly creative correlations; but there are other dimensions, equally valid, such as strategic positioning, company image, innovation and learning, and so forth.

Understanding the multidimensional nature of Value becomes therefore critical to drive the project to success.

In this talk we’ll address what Value means in Agile for different stakeholders; how to map and categorize the stakeholders; how to describe Value on different dimension and how to track it. We’ll also see what happens when we don’t do that.

Also, assuming different stakeholders on the same project have different and multifaceted perceptions of Value, how can we coordinate the production effort in a balanced way? Which kind of corporate culture and corporate values (plural) support that?

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Congress I, II, III

Closing Keynote: Brian Robertson

Brian Robertson

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Closing Keynote: Brian Robertson

Brian Robertson

Room: Congress I, II, III

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Session Type: Closing Keynote

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Biography

Brian Robertson is a seasoned entrepreneur and organization builder, and a recovering CEO -- a job he now helps free others from with Holacracy. Generally regarded as the primary developer of the system, Brian's work allows leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit governance process. Brian also serves as the drafter and steward of the Holacracy Constitution, which captures the system's unique "rules of the game" in concrete form. Beyond joyfully crafting legal documents, Brian's creative expression takes many forms - he co-founded HolacracyOne to support Holacracy's growth, and he fills and loves a broad variety of the company's roles. He's particularly grateful to hold no fancy titles and wield no special powers, so he can show up as just another partner doing his part to support something he cares about.

Holacracy: A radical New Approach to Management

Organizations are the most powerful force on the planet, and the management hierarchy has been the dominant mode of organizing them for the past century. But this "social technology" wasn't designed for the fast-paced, interconnected world we live in today, and when would-be leaders are stifled by an obsolete bureaucracy, everyone suffers.

Holacracy is an alternative - a complete, scalable system for structuring a company without a traditional management hierarchy, yet with more clarity, accountability, & agility. Holacracy's governance process allows a company to continually evolve its structure and rules, in response to an ever-changing world and the wisdom of its workforce. And Holacracy's distributed structure empowers everyone to be a leader of some part of the company, with clear autonomy yet clear responsibilities.

Hundreds of companies around the world have now adopted Holacracy; come learn why and experience a radical new way to structure an agile, purpose-driven company.

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